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Education

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Muambi City

Hello Friends,
I am Sheela from Ashok High School. Today I am sharing some sweet and sour memories with you all. Suniti Girls High School was born from the idea of providing Girls Education with few no: of classes in June 1941. Founder Mr.Navneetbhai Mehta donated his own residence as the school building. Later new members joined in the management committee which changed the face of school and even the name, to ASHOK HIGH SCHOOL, coined after one of our trustee's sons.

Now school runs parallel media of instruction -- Morning English & noon Gujrati. Both are having co -- education. Today overall strength of our school is nearly 600.

Today Yasmin Gat is studying in 6th grade at the Vagher Vas government primary school in Bhadreshwar. For the one-time drop out, going from Randh Bandar to the school in Bhadreshwar village has not been easy. Yasmin had to migrate for more than eight months of the year to Randh Bandar with her parents for fishing. Since, there is no educational facility on Randh Bandar, she had to leave her education and aspirations behind. As a result, Yasmin and her friends dropped out of their schools.

Today our school is providing many facilities to the students & encouraging them by giving awards & scholarship. For all of us the source of inspiration is our Principal Mr.Navneet, who himself has won many awards in his academic carrier as well as in interschool science projects even today!

Let me tell you that teachers here are busy molding life of those students who are coming from a low income group and are mostly first generation learners. Here the role of a teacher is different compared to the other schools because here not only the students need their guidance but also the parents at times need their counseling about nutrition, health tips, which teachers happily execute.

I still remember the time when we all attended our first session in the DE lab by Mrs. Sushila Sharma. When training started we were really startled at the way the mouse ran around beyond our control and the cursor was escaping our vision so nastily! With our incomplete knowledge about the computers, we ran around to each others’ desks to clarify our doubts. We forgot to save our files and then were desperately looking for the “unsaved” files. But the best thing was we never gave up! We tried again… and again…and finally got hold!

Doing projects on computers was the weirdest thing we had ever heard! We never knew what a “project on a computer” was and also were worried that this was the beginning of a new overhead on us.

But thanks to AIF for they trained not only the students but also the teachers, which is a unique feature of the DE program. Students were thrilled & excited to see the teachers (who are always teaching them something) here learning something along with themselves. The change from black board with chalk & duster to mouse & the keyboard was something really phenomenal in a school like this. The students even became teachers as they were more rapid in grasping the concepts of the computer than us. So the whole learning process was metamorphosised from a mechanical, one-way, non-resulting teaching to an interactive process of learning.

Since the students here do not have the privilege to avail the uses of a computer at their homes, the DE lab was next to a temple to them which they made use of, so reverentially and religiously. We were ecstatic when we finally found that we had stood first amongst all the schools in the AIF contests. We all are, still, floating on the cloud no.9 & now students here are eagerly awaiting their rewards.